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SirChris posted...

To put this another way: if we voted by popular vote it would have been 20 years since we had a republican president in this country

the EC is the only thing keeping republicans relevant

Unrelated to my "timeline/key moments/reasons of the GOP's descent" thought bouncing in my head - another thing I sometimes think about is the "what-if" alternate history of the 2004 election. Kerry came very close to pulling off the "lose the popular vote, win the EC" there - give him Ohio and it happens, and Ohio was close. Not 2000 Florida close, but still.

If we had back-to-back elections of the popular vote being thwarted by the EC and it affecting both parties... could we have actually seen movement to abolish it?

But that moment came and went and now there's no way the GOP will give up their structural un-small-d-democratic advantage unless some crazy realignment happens.